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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Moliere

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE

Action Heart Ourselves Secret
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

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