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But it is not reason that governs love.

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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous

But it is not reason that governs love.

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