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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

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
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
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket

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