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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

There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
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
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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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
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
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
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

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

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