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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chas

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. – Samuel Butler

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler

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Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Family

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderers life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered persons family. – Dennis Prager

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Family

I can make dressing – or stuffing. Yall call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. Its really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that. – Edie Brickell

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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still dont get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family? – Gertrude Stein

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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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Power and speed be hands and feet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I grew up in the business since I was three years old so Ive always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it. – Ashley Tisdale

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