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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
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
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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