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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
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
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience

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