You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERENo matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
More Moliere Quotes
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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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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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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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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