The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
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
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow

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