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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIERE

Judgment Ourselves
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
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
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
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!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

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