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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

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