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


Moliere

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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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MOLIERE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
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