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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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
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
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom

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