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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.

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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous

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