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Moliere

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
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.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
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.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth

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