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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Moliere

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
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
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
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
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste

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