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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Moliere

Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIERE

Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

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