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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Moliere

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
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
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
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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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live

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