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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

Moliere

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE

Double Grief Increase Yourself
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself

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