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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.

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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak

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