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

Moliere

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
MOLIERE

Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
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
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue

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