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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

Moliere

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
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
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange

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