Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.


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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
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The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
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The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
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There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
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To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
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Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
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What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
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I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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