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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moliere

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
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

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