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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
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
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
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
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
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
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

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