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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
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
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself

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