Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
THOMAS MOREFor 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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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