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Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.
It is intolerable that a silly fool, with nothing but empty birth to boast of, should in his insolence array himself in the merits of others, and vaunt an honour which does not belong to him.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

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