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

Moliere

Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
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 easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
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
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
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
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself

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