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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.

Moliere

It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
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
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera

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