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

Moliere

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
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
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom

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

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