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.
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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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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