I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors after that, I shall buy clothes.
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Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.Desiderius Erasmus
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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What passes out of ones mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
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For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.
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