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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
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
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

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