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

Moliere

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
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
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly

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

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