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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Moliere

We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World

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