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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
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
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
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

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