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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 more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
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 is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
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
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound

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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