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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom

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