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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
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
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

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