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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse

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