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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
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
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself

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