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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.

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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
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
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
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
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste

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