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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

Moliere

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIERE

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue

My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

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