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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

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live

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