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" Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. "

Desiderius Erasmus

Woman

Success

Present

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Truth

Humility

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Far

Than

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Desiderius Erasmus

Privilege

Stretch

" Fortune favors the audacious. "

" Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. "

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" He who allows oppression shares the crime. "

Desiderius Erasmus

Oppression

Who

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" If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen. "

" Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. "

" When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. "

" The desire to write grows with writing. "

" Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's. "

" The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. "

" Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. "

" It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. "