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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
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
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing

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