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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Moliere

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

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