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But it is not reason that governs love.

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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World

But it is not reason that governs love.

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