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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

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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
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
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
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

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