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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Moliere

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
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
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
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
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret

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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