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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

Moliere

They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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