Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
THOMAS MOREAnd one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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