I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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