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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

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIERE

Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

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

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Project Road
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate

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!

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