A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MOREThe 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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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