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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Moliere

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
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
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
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
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
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

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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