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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

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