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You are a fool in four letters, my son.

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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
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.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

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