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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.

Moliere

When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
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!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known

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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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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