Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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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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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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