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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Moliere

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

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
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
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Road
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
MOLIERE

Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time

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