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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
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!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time

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