Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
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So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
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