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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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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
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
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
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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