I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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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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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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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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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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