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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

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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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Moon Planet Religion Several Worship
And 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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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
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
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Creature Fear Live Yourself
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
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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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

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