"The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless."
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"No book so bad but some part may be of use."
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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
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"And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?"
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"May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?"
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"As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness."
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"When [Theresa May] says something she means it and she gets her way."
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"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
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"The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn."
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"That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance."
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"We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous."
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"No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions."
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"Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated."
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"He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him."
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"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."
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"May the good God pardon all good men."
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"But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity."
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"A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?"
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"To die before one fears to die may be a boon."
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"To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!"
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