It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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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.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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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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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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