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.
MOLIEREAll the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
More Moliere Quotes
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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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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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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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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