But it is not reason that governs love.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing

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