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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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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
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
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark

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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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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