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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
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

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

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