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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.

Thomas More

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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Disguise Lawyer People Profession
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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Business Chance Life Nature Ourselves
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
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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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Marriage Reason Rhyme
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
For 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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Goodness Man Writing
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Education Greatness Ourselves Problem School Time
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Forget Heart Love True
The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Himself Man State Trust
Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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Education Flower Friendship Oneself Problem Small

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