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

Moliere

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom

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

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