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“The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.”

— Marcel Achard

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Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

— Marcel Achard

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It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

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The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

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When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

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Be thy best thoughts to work divine addressed; Do something,—do it soon—with all thy might; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God Himself inactive were no longer blessed.

— Carlos Wilcox

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When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.

— D. L. Moody

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