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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

Moliere

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

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

Right True Zeal
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope

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