No more like together than is chalke to coles.
THOMAS MORENo 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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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