All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIEREIt infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
More Moliere Quotes
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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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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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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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.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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