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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
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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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Marriage Reason Rhyme
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 man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
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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Advice Food Life Magic Therapy True World
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
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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Gold Substance Understand Value
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
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
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
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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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

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