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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
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.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
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
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
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

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