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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Moliere

There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
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
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

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