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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Moliere

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
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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