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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

Moliere

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
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
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

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