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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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

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