"You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it."
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"What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear."
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"We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons."
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"History may not repeat, but it often rhymes."
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"Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better."
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"Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not."
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"Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with."
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"By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also."
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"I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!"
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"The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart"
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"Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation."
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"It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend."
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"The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke."
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"... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out."
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"Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes."
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"A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross."
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"What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter."
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"A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else."
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"It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him."
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"And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger."
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