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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter

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