"You're beautiful, like a May fly."
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"Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling."
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"If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice."
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"It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best."
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"Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with"
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"One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else."
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"Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed."
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"Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise."
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"Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy."
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"You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil."
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"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly"
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"We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people."
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"My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant."
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"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."
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"Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better."
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"ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon."
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"I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon."
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"People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip."
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"In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told."
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"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"
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