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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

Moliere

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

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