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

Moliere

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself

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