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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

Moliere

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
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
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
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

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

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