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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Moliere

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
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
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
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
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
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
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 road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue

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