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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.

Moliere

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
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
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
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.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
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
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
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
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
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

That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.

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