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

Moliere

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
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

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