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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

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
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
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
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
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself

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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