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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

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Cute, Gowns, Nonsense

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Too great haste leads us to error.

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Errors, Haste

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 353-54, Sganarelle, I. 12, 1922.

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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

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Communication, Literature, Praying

Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.134, Penguin

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People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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Mean, People, Mind

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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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Love, Shows, Pure

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A woman always has her revenge ready.

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Revenge, Women, Ready

"Tartuffe". Play by Moliere, Act II, sc. ii, 1664.

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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

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Men, Nasty, Creatures

'Le Tartuffe' (1669) act 5, sc. 6

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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

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Philosophical, Matter, Way

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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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Health, Medicine, Medical

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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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Powerful, Honor, Overcoming

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To live without loving is not really to live.

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Love, Relationship

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We are easily duped by those we love.

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Best Love, Love Is, Those We Love

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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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Education, Learning, Ignorance

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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

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Literature, Littles, Faults

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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

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Honesty, Heart, Men

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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

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Death, Shadow Of Death, Shadow

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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

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Funny, Humorous, Men

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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

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Women, Believe, Heart

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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

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Fashion, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.248, Penguin

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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

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Worry, Anxiety, Doubt

"The Misanthrope". Play by Moliere, Act III, sc. v, 1666.

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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

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Ridiculous, Behavior, Folks

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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

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Hate, Mean, Men

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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

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Wit, Touchstones

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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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Helping Others, Men, Doe

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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

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Fate, Artist, Ignorant

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Born: January 15, 1622
Died: February 17, 1673
Occupation: Playwright
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