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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

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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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
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
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
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
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak

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