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

Moliere

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
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
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
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
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
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
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves

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