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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas More

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
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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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Esteem Gold Value Wonder
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
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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Advice Food Life Magic Therapy True World
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Comfort Gentle Human
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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