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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
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
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

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