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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

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
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
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
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart

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