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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Moliere

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful

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