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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

How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
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
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself

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