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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Moliere

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE

Herself Revenge Woman
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man One Liner
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

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