Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIEREDom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
More Moliere Quotes
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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