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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
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
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
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
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
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
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

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