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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Moliere

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
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
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
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

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