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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
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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Devil Faith Goodness Hands Oneself Right Thing
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Character Enough Face Himself Hold Man
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
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
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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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Hands Marriage Oneself
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
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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Goodness Man Writing
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

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