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

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
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
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human

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