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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
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman

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