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Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

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Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
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Creature Food Hope
What power has law where only money rules?
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Law Money Power Rule
The world wants to be deceived.
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Betrayal World
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
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Distance Equality Heaven
He has gone over to the majority.
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Himself Majority
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
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Allow Betrayal World
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
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Believe Business Man
One good turn deserves another.
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Deserve Goodness Turn
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
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Esteem Himself Worth Yourself
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
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Favor Hardship
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
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Doctor Spirit
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
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Beautiful Combination Wisdom
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
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Counseling Mindset
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
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Alien Home Leaving Life Yourself
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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Oneself Vulture Women
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
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Believe Complete Fools Life Man Ordinary School Young

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