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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

Moliere

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

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