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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

Moliere

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself

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