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Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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