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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Moliere

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
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 only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
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
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself

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