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

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I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
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.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous

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