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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

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

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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