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!
MOLIEREYou never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
More Moliere Quotes
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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