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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

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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
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
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
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.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World

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