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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
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
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure

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