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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
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.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MOLIERE

Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession

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