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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
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Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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