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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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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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Devil Faith Goodness Hands Oneself Right Thing
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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Goodness Heart Kindness Men Nature Obligation Strong Word
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Character Enough Face Himself Hold Man
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
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
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Education Greatness Ourselves Problem School Time
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
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

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