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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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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
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
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue

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