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But it is not reason that governs love.

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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
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
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
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
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself

But it is not reason that governs love.

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