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

Moliere

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE

Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIERE

Fine Myself Understand Word
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself

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