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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
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 road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
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

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

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