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

Thomas More

A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
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
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
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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God Life Love Possible
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
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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Gold Substance Understand Value
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
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
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
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Delight Manner Peace
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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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street

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

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