The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIEREIt’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
More Moliere Quotes
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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