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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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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
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
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
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 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
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue

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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