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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

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense

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

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