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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

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

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage

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