I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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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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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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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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Friendship demands attention.
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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 man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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