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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
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

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

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