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

Moliere

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
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
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness

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

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