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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Moliere

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIERE

Charity Known Money Yourself
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience

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