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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE

Action Heart Ourselves Secret
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
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
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk

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