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

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King

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

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