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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

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