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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
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
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
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
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
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
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE

Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle

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