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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
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
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage

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