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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
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
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
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
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
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
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism

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