Speaking Prose (The Bourgeois Gentleman) — Molière
PHILOSOPHY MASTER: Whatever is not prose is verse, and whatever is not verse is prose. MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: And when one speaks, what is that, then? PHILOSOPHY MASTER: Prose, sir. MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Goo
PHILOSOPHY MASTER: Whatever is not prose is verse, and whatever is not verse is prose. MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: And when one speaks, what is that, then? PHILOSOPHY MASTER: Prose, sir. MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing anything about it, and I am most obliged to you for teaching me that.