As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.Daniel Defoe
All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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