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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.

Moliere

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
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
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover

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