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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery

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