It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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