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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.

Moliere

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
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
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
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
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

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