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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

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The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
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

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

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