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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.


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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
MOLI Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
MOLI Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLI He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLI We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
MOLI Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLI One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
MOLI There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
MOLI Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLI It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLI A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLI We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLI People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLI Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLI The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLI There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLI The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love sho...
MOLI The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLI A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
MOLI It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLI There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobac...
MOLI Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLI Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLI Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLI It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
MOLI The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIÈRE