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

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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
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
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand

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

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