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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
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
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
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
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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