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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Moliere

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time

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