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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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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking

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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