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

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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language

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

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