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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MOLIERE

Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIERE

Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way

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