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

Moliere

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

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

Talk Understand Well Yourself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE

Fruit Love Marriage
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman

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

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