"Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most."
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"She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does."
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"If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows."
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"They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]"
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"The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."
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"That you may be beloved, be amiable."
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"There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose."
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"Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?"
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"A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!"
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"The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude."
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"There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things be revealed."
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"Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"
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"A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House."
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"It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically."
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"Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable."
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"They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive."
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"Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it."
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"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called."
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"The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right."
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"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him."
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