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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

Moliere

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
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

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference

My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

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