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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

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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
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
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
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue

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