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Moliere

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
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIERE

Goodness Modeling People Side
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
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
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion

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