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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing

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