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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

Moliere

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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

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