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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Act Friendship Judgement Word
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Event Greatness Spring
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
Temerity is not always successful.
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Chance Failure One Liner Success
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Appearance Attraction Deep Fake Wisdom
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Bond Dangerous Hate Man Strong
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Adversity Fortune Himself Man True
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Direction Feeling Loss Money Privacy
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Bond Nature Relationship Unity
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth
Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Guilty Men Mindset

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