"For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest."
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"Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes."
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"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."
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"No man may make another free."
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"I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon."
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"No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health."
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"The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country."
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"Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them."
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"This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon."
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"Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us."
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"The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical."
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"Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon."
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"An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be."
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"For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May."
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"In an easy cause any man may be eloquent."
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"We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have."
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"It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested."
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"No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom."
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"A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered."
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"The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours."
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