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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
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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Himself Man State Trust
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
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.
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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
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
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
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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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
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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Better Build Change Love Person Story Strength Strong War
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

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

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