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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere
Money
Love
First
Friends
Prostitution
Writing
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
Trees
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Moliere
Gallantry
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere
Control
Grammar
Kings
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Moliere
Change
Husbands
Law
Woman
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere
Work
Virtue
Books
Day
Fame
Famous
Reading
Worth
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere
Men
Comedy
Duty
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
Glory
Overcoming
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere
Love
Friends
Nothing
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Moliere
Courage
Piety
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Moliere
Praise
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Moliere
Folk
Nothing
Passion
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Moliere
Fool
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere
Compromise
Heaven
We die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere
Time