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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
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
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
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
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
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
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True

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