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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Moliere

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side

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