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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 find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
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
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
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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!
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Bad Goodness

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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