“Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.”

—  Molière , book Tartuffe

Pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins homme.
Act III, sc. iii
Tartuffe (1664)

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Pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins homme.

Tartuffe (1664)

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