I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MOREIt’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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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