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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

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
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
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
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth

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