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Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
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Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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Misanthropy
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Drawers
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Age brings about everything but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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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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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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All right-minded people adore it and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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