One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIEREAh, there are no longer any children!
More Moliere Quotes
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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