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Moliere

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
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
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste

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