"The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]"
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"The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long."
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"I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight."
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"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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"It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows."
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"Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws."
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"We are all mortals, and each is for himself."
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"Birth means nothing where there is no virtue."
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"Time has nothing to do with the matter."
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"In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste."
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"I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody."
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"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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"To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin."
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"One can be well-bred and write bad poetry"
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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."
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"In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat."
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"Assassination's the fastest way."
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"The road is long fro the project to its completion."
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"She is laughing up her sleeve at you."
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"I will maintain it before the whole world."
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