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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

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
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
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
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
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
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
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
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
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

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