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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine

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