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.
THOMAS MORENor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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