"If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?"
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"A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute."
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"Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry."
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"For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened."
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"As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it."
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"Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation."
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"Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful."
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"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."
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"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."
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"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
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"Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine."
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"I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers."
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"May the flop be with you."
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"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
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"We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth."
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"We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees."
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"Let the black flower blossom as it may!"
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"It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected."
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"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free."
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"Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain."
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