A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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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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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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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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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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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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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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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Friendship demands attention.
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