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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIERE

Judgment Ourselves
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road
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

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman

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