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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Moliere

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIERE

Fine Myself Understand Word
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
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
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.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

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