By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
THOMAS MOREAnd it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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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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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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