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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.

Moliere

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERE

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE

Brilliance Touch True
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man One Liner
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIERE

Fools Marriage
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral

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