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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

Moliere

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
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
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself

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