I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
THOMAS MORESex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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