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Sorcery works against Nature, magic works with it.
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Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid.
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Though you expel Nature with a pitchfork, she will always return.
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What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?
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It had not been precisely a fruitful meeting, but it had been a long one.
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These precautions, perhaps because they had been taken, proved unnecessary.
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It's not a matter of who runs first or who runs last. It's merely a matter of who gets caught.
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Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.
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Drew a knife on us, one muttered, with the sullen rage of the bully who feels wronged when resisted.
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A querulous whine that was almost a question was succeeded by a deep gobble that was almost an answer.
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But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money.
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There may be someone here who knows less about all this than I do, Clemens said, but I can't imagine who.
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It was but that, seeing him and so imagining that something about him was otherwise, automatically they feared him.
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Things oughtn't to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.
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Tell him you'll pay any fine within reason. That dragon-cod can't even read his own name unless it's written in gold ink.
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It is not in the nature of any people that it should willingly endure being ruled by another people, whether it is ruled ill or ruled well.
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Hmm... hmm. A stag hunt. To what elaborate lengths the equestrian classes go in order to draw out the simple business of butchering venison.
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Clearly this was no time to ask if they should first define their terms. Nor, for that matter, had Socrates had to define the bowl of hemlock.
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Everything meant something, still, some meanings were revealed sooner than others. And that some were seemingly never revealed in no way disproved the fact.
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It is not a very interesting night market, anyway. No wonderful things are sold there, though often one wonders, next day, how one could have bought them...
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The ceremony was long and intricate, probably none of them could have explained why half of it was done, and the explanations for the other half would probably have been thoroughly incorrect.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
April 23, 1923
Died:
May 8, 1993
(aged 70)
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