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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Moliere

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
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
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
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World

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