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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
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
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
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
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

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