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A bitter jest, when the satire comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind. - [Satire : Jesting] A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. - [Oppression : Persecution] A desire to resist persecution is implanted in the nature of man. - [Persecution : Oppression] A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. - [Proverbs] A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety. - [Proverbs] Adversity deprives us of our judgment. - [Proverbs] All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent. - [Antiquity] An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one. - [Reputation] Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence. - [Proverbs] By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority. - [Proverbs] Common report is not always wrong. - [Proverbs] Conspicuous by his absence. - [Absence] Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. - [Crime] Crimes succeed by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. - [Despatch] Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. - [Falsehood] Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat. - [Proverbs] Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility. - [Flattery] It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. - [Proverbs] It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown. - [Appreciation] It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead. - [Proverbs] It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. - [Eloquence] It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured. - [Hate] Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable. - [Proverbs] Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals. - [Liberty] Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich. - [Reformation] Displaying page 1 of 5 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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