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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Moliere

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
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
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People

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