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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Moliere

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
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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

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