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

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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
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
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World

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

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