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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

There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence

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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