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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
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.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite

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