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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Moliere

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
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
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIERE

Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom

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