Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIEREHeaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
More Moliere Quotes
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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