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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

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Project Road
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife

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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