"Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her"
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"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
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"Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans."
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"Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight."
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"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then."
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"In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted."
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"This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free."
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"Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak."
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"I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy."
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"An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true."
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"A book may be as great a thing as a battle."
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"An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur."
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"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
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"Little friends may prove great friends."
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"Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion."
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"Conceit may bring about one's own downfall."
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"The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever."
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"Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense."
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"What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure."
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"You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it."
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