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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

It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
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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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket

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.

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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.

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