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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.

Thomas More

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
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
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
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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Goodness Man Writing
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
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
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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Disguise Lawyer People Profession
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking
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

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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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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