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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

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness

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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