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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

Moliere

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
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
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick

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