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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Moliere

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
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
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
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

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