French - Playwright | January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Moliere
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People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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