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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?

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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
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
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
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune

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