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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Moliere

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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 a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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