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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Moliere

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE

Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERE

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIERE

Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself

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