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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Moliere

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
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
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
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!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
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
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity

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