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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

Moliere

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
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
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
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

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

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