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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
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
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
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try 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
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
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
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom

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