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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

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

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

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

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

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Road

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