If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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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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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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