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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

Thomas More

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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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
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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Disguise Lawyer People Profession
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Character Enough Face Himself Hold Man
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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Goodness Man Writing
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Flower Scent Shower Walk
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible

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