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"The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair."
Jean Baptiste Molière / L'École des Femmes. Act ii. Sc. 6.
L'École des Femmes. Act ii. Sc. 6.
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"There are fagots and fagots."
Jean Baptiste Molière / Le Médecin malgré lui. Act i. Sc. 6.
Le Médecin malgré lui. Act i. Sc. 6.
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"We have changed all that."
Jean Baptiste Molière / Le Médecin malgré lui. Act ii. Sc. 6.
Le Médecin malgré lui. Act ii. Sc. 6.
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"Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man."
Jean Baptiste Molière / Le Tartuffe. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Le Tartuffe. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners."
Jean Baptiste Molière / Amphitryon. Act iii. Sc. 5.
Amphitryon. Act iii. Sc. 5.
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"Ah that I-- You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This suits you very nicely, and you are served right; you have precisely what you deserve."
Jean Baptiste Molière / George Dandin. Act i. Sc. 19.
George Dandin. Act i. Sc. 19.
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"I am addressing myself--I am addressing myself to my cap."
Jean Baptiste Molière / L'Avare. Act i. Sc. 3.
L'Avare. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"The beautiful eyes of my cash-box."
Jean Baptiste Molière / L'Avare. Act v. Sc. 3.
L'Avare. Act v. Sc. 3.
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"You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known."
Jean Baptiste Molière / L'Avare. Act v. Sc. 5.
L'Avare. Act v. Sc. 5.
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"My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship."
Jean Baptiste Molière / Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"I will maintain it before the whole world."
Jean Baptiste Molière / Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 5.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 5.
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"What the devil did he want in that galley?"
Jean Baptiste Molière / Les Fourberies de Scapin. Act ii. Sc. 11.
Les Fourberies de Scapin. Act ii. Sc. 11.
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"Grammar, which knows how to control even kings."
Jean Baptiste Molière / Les Femmes savantes. Act ii. Sc. 6.
Les Femmes savantes. Act ii. Sc. 6.
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"Ah, there are no longer any children!"
Jean Baptiste Molière / Le Malade Imaginaire. Act ii. Sc. 11.
Le Malade Imaginaire. Act ii. Sc. 11.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain