You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIEREThere is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
More Moliere Quotes
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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