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They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to deal with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
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To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin; and in order to apply and develop, "simple interpretation" is obviously not enough.
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Temptations came to him, in middle age, tentatively and without insistence, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason than that he didn't get one in December.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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Merlin went up-stairs very quietly at nine o'clock. When he was in his room and had closed the door tight he stood by it for a moment, his thin limbs trembling. He knew now that he had always been a fool.
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We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants, who affect to talk in a language not to be understood.
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Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
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Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.
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Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
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If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
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