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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
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
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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