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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 scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
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.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong

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