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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
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
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
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense

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