I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so
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He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made.Samuel Butler
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Quoth Hudibras, 'I smell a rat Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.'
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Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
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