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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday

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