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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
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
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
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

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