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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.

Moliere

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
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’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse

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