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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

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE

Brilliance Touch True
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
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
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
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
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
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
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill

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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