"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."
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"You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept."
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"It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes."
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"Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere."
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"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."
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"And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined."
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"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity."
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"If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them."
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"There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control."
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"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised."
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"Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me."
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"Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time."
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"If at first you don't succeed, try again. If it still doesn't work out, success may not be your thing."
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"The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right."
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"Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time."
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"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with"
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"So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist."
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"I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress."
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"The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is."
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"If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen."
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