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“Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.”

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Molière, a renowned French playwright, was born on January 15, 1622, and died on February 17, 1673. He is known for his unique comedic style and profound social satire, and is considered one of the founders of French drama. more

“Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.”

Ifs Men Humans Long Perfect Taken Figures Sitting Tables Smoke Streams Rising Smoking Dozen Entering Remarks Pipe Sitting Around Ruffles

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great

“The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.”

Men Ends Mark Smoking Pipe Orangutans

Author:Ben Jonson

“You have proved it is a very moral habit.”

Moral Habit Smoking

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.”

Men Funny Cry Comfort Humorous Smoking Cigar Smokers Smoking Cigars

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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