I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIEREAnd with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
More Moliere Quotes
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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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.
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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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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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