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.
THOMAS MOREFood 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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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