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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
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
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
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
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
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

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