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My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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Forty
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Knowing
Heaven
Talking
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Heavens
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Prose
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
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Music and dance are all you need.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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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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