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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

Moliere

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
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.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
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!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

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