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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
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
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
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
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
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
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk

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