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M. Jourdain:
What? when I say: 'Nicole, bring me my slippers, and give me my night-cap,' is that prose?
Philosophy Teacher:
Yes, Sir.
M. Jourdain:
Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.
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Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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January 15, 1622
Died:
February 17, 1673
(aged 51)
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