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"I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many."
"Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing."
"If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too."
"Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit."
"He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought."
"Talk in order that I may see you."
"Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical."
"There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves."
"Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings?"
"I am so close, I may look distant."
"May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise."
"If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error."
"Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related."
"It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life."
"Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time."
"And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to."
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
"A kiss may ruin a human life"
"Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together."
"I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs."
