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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

It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity

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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