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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.

Moliere

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
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
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
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
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 strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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
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
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.

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