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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.

Moliere

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
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
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary

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