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

Moliere

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
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
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
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
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
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
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket

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