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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE

Double Grief Increase Yourself
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE

Brilliance Touch True
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue

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