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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Moliere

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

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

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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