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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

Moliere

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
MOLIERE

Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
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

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue

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