What is deferred is not avoided.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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