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I have the knack of easing scruples.

Moliere

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man

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