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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
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.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People

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