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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
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
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite

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