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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise

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