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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

Moliere

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
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
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman

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