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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
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Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
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But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
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