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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

Moliere

Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety

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