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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

Moliere

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
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
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

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