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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
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself

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