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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

Moliere

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
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
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
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself

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