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I have the knack of easing scruples.

Moliere

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World

I have the knack of easing scruples.

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