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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
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

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