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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.

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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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman

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