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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right

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