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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

Thomas More

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
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Comfort Gentle Human
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
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
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
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
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
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
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
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
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Flower Scent Shower Walk
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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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength

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