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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

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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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
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
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
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
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion

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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