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You are a fool in four letters, my son.

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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
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
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth 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
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

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