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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.

Moliere

People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
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
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
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
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction

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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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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