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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

Moliere

Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
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
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

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