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You are a fool in four letters, my son.

Moliere

To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

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