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

Moliere

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
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover

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