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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.

Moliere

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

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
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
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue

There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.

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