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

Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
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.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick

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