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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Moliere

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
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 is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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 live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
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

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