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Too great haste leads us to error.

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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
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
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul

Too great haste leads us to error.

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