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

Affair Charm Gold Misery
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
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
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal

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

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