What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MOREI’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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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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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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