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Quotation from The Miser and The Would-Be Gentleman by Molière

“For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing anything about it”

Molière (spoken by Monsieur Jourdain)

The Miser and The Would-Be Gentleman, The Would-Be Gentleman, Act Two, Scene IV, trans. Philip Dwight Jones

Jourdain's delight after the philosophy master explains that whatever is not verse is prose.

Citation: "For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing anything about it" — Molière, The Miser and The Would-Be Gentleman, The Would-Be Gentleman, Act Two, Scene IV, trans. Philip Dwight Jones. (id moliere-the-miser-and-the-would-be-gentleman-q4)

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