For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
THOMAS MOREGetting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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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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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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