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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
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
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
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
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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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

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