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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

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Road
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE

Greatness Life Love Man Weakness

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