No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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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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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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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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Nor 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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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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