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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
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
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.
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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
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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Advice Food Life Magic Therapy True World
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
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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Delight Manner Peace
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
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
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

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