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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

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