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«A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist»
«I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.»
«A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.»
«He will not enter hell who hath faith equal to a mustard seed in his heart; and he will not enter Paradise who hath a single grain of pride, equal to a mustard seed, in his heart»
«If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?»
«Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole»
«Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: / Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.»
«Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain.»
«A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth»
«If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.»

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