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  1. A quotation from Moliere

       SGANARELLE: Have you no fears about returning here? It was here, Sir, that you killed that Commander, six months ago.
       DON JUAN: Why should I be afraid? Didn’t I kill him properly?
     
       [SGANARELLE: Et n’y craignez-vous rien, monsieur, de la mort de ce commandeur que vous tuâtes il y a six mois?
       DON JUAN: Et pourquoi craindre? ne l’ai-je pas bien tué?]

    Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
    Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 1, sc. 2 (1665) [tr. Wilbur (2001)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/80359/

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