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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth

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