It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIEREWriting is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
More Moliere Quotes
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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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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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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