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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

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
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
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
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
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
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
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand

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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