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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

People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark

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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