Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIEREI maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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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.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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