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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

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIERE

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself

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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