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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 maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
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

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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