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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

Moliere

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
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
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

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