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

Moliere

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
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
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
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
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity

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