"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on Giving
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on Love
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"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on Friends and Friendship
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Friends and Friendship
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"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."

Churchill, Winston on Children
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"Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. "

Beecher, Henry Ward on Uncategorised
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"In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem"

Dever, J. A. on Communities
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"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

Butler, Samuel on Law and Lawyers
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"The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has."

Chandler, Raymond on Law and Lawyers
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"The good of the people is the greatest law."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Law and Lawyers
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"The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Law and Lawyers
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"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature and of nations."

Burke, Edmund on Law and Lawyers
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"Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny."

Burke, Edmund on Law and Lawyers
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

Bentham, Jeremy on Law and Lawyers
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"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

Bentham, Jeremy on Law and Lawyers
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"Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Law and Lawyers
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"Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them."

Becker, Ward on Law and Lawyers
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"It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure."

Samuel, Herbert on Marriage
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"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement."

Coolidge, Calvin on Law and Lawyers
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"The trouble with law is lawyers."

Darrow, Clarence on Law and Lawyers
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"I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution."

Grant, Ulysses S. on Law and Lawyers
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"The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue."

Goldsmith, Oliver on Law and Lawyers
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"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."

Gibbon, Edward on Law and Lawyers
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"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Frost, Robert on Law and Lawyers
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"Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."

Franklin, Benjamin on Law and Lawyers
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"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Law and Lawyers
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"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Law and Lawyers
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"The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Law and Lawyers
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"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Law and Lawyers
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"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."

Dickens, Charles on Law and Lawyers
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"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."

Rowland, Helen on Marriage
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"Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness."

Rieux, Madame De on Marriage
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"Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind."

Prior, Matthew on Marriage
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"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership."

Landers, Ann on Marriage
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"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."

Kraus, Karl on Marriage
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"Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there."

Jackson, Andrew on Marriage
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"A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin."

Ibsen, Henrik on Marriage
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"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

Homer on Marriage
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"She is a wife who is the soul of her husband."

Hitopadesa on Marriage
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"Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood."

Hesiod on Marriage
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