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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.

Moliere

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
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
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick

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