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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
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
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
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
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
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

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

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