A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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