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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

Moliere

They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIERE

Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
MOLIERE

Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road

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