They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MOREThe servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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