Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MORENo living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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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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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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