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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

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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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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
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
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner 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
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself

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