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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
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 praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

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