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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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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession

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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