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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

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The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.

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First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor' of mankind. Since his new benevolence has a practical foundation, he cannot very well adhere to the old Biblical recommendation, that the left hand should not know what the right hand giveth.

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

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God gives where he finds empty hands.

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Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

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It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

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Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.

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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

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Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

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