"The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it."
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"Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow."
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"I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything."
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"This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as "fictive," "fabricated," and "untrue to life" into the word "novelistic." Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion."
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"The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long."
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"Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command."
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"Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work."
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"Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are."
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"The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on."
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"May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had."
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"Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem."
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"Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them."
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"A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste."
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"A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent."
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"Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it."
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"After the end of the cold war, everybody thought, fantastic, finally the UN may be able to do what it was originally set up to do without big power divisions. It would be easy to get them to come together to resolve things. You will recall, on the first Gulf war, you almost got a unanimous resolution and a very solid coalition."
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"Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance."
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"What you may seek and what you may find are not always one."
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"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."
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"If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself."
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