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

Moliere

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
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
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
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 more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted

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

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

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