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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked

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