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.
THOMAS MOREBy 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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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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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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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