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

Moliere

I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse

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

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