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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

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
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
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
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
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
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
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
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
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
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong

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