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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
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
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

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