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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

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

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
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

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