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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

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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
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
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
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
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
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul

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