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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

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
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
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World

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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