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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

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