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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.

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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
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
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing

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