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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.

Moliere

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
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
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
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
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason

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