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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
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
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
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
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong

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