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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

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
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.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

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

Draw Enough Goodness
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live

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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