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

Moliere

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE

Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste

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