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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Thomas More

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
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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Goodness Heart Kindness Men Nature Obligation Strong Word
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
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Flower Scent Shower Walk
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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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
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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Creature Fear Live Yourself
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
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking
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

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