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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

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
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
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
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
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying

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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