My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIEREThe less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
More Moliere Quotes
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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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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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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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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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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