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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
I 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.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing

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