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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
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
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
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
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King

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