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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Moliere

Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
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
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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