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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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