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Ah, there are no longer any children!

Moliere

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
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

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