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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
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.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
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
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
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE

Brilliance Touch True
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room

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