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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

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction

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