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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIERE

Heart Love Myself World
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man One Liner
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

Age People Praise
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way

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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