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But it is not reason that governs love.

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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
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
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
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
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence

But it is not reason that governs love.

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