| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40102 |
| QUOTATION: | One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673), French comic playwright. Célimène to Arsinoé, in The Misanthrope, act 3, sc. 4 (1666).
The coquette, Célimène, speaks to the hypocritical Arsinoé. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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