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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
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
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

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