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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Moliere

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
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
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
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
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

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