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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Moliere

Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
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
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence

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