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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money

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