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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 which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
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
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War

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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