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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.

Moliere

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
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
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
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
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
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
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow

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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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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