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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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 but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Who will watch the watchers?
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