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

Moliere

Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True

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