It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
THOMAS MOREFood 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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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