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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Moliere

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
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
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
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
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
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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