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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

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