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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
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
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
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
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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