He travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MOREOh! blame not the bard.
More Thomas More Quotes
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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