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

Moliere

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
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
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
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
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work

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