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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

Moliere

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
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
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
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
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin

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