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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.

Thomas More

Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
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
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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Greatness Mindset Peace Wealth
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
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
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
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Forget Heart Love True
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
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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Flower Scent Shower Walk
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
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
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
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
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
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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Goodness Heart Kindness Men Nature Obligation Strong Word
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

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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