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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Moliere

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIERE

Judgment Ourselves
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself

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