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Quotation from The Miser and The Would-Be Gentleman by Molière
“without dowry" compensates for want of beauty, youth, birth, honour, wisdom, and probity”
The Miser and The Would-Be Gentleman, The Miser, Act I, Scene X, trans. Charles Heron Wall
Valère, pretending to take Harpagon's side within his hearing, praises the old man's favourite argument for marrying Élise to Anselme.
Citation: "without dowry" compensates for want of beauty, youth, birth, honour, wisdom, and probity" — Molière, The Miser and The Would-Be Gentleman, The Miser, Act I, Scene X, trans. Charles Heron Wall. (id moliere-the-miser-and-the-would-be-gentleman-q1)
