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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

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
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
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
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
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
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way

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