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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
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

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

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