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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

Thomas More

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
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
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Forget Heart Love True
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Acceptance Challenge Life Modern Personal Social Soul
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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Moon Planet Religion Several Worship
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
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

Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

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