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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.

Moliere

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 world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
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
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 public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage

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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