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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.
- Things are only worth what you make them worth.
- Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws
- 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!
- Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
- I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them…
- The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
- The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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