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Authors & Writing
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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
-Moli
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Class
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
-Moli
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Communication
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
-Moli
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Criticism
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One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
-Moli
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Difficulty
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
-Moli
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Fate & Destiny
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
-Moli
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Flattery
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
-Moli
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Fools, Foolishness
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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
-Moli
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Gold
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
-Moli
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Grammar
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
-Moli
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Hate
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
-Moli
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Ideas
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
-Moli
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Insults
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
-Moli, The Would-be Gentleman
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Knowledge
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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
-Moli
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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
-Moli
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Marriage
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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
-Moli
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
-Moli
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
-Moli
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Pleasure
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
-Moli
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Praise
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There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
-Moli
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Reading
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Books and marriage go ill together.
-Moli
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Reform, Correction
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
-Moli
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Responsibility
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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
-Moli
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Shame
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
-Moli
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Smoking
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There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
-Moli
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Books by and about Moli