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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

Moliere

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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
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
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

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