"If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well."
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"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."
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"Too great haste leads us to error."
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"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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"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."
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"I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper."
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"Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense."
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"To live without loving is not really to live."
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"He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money."
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"All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure."
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"The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence."
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"Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed."
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"It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love."
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"There is no protection against slander."
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"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
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"How easy love makes fools of us."
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"You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time."
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"If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble."
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"Long is the road from conception to completion."
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"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."
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