What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

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