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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

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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
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word

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