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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIERE

Goodness Modeling People Side
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People

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