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

Thomas More

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
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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Better Build Change Love Person Story Strength Strong War
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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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
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
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
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
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
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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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
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
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
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
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
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
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom

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