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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
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
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
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
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
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 we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand

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