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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

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.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True

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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