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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.

Moliere

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
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
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman

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