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"The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority."
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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."

"Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong."

"But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes."

"God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness."

"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."

"There's nothing like a military man, even out of uniform."

"Oh lord and master. High muckety-muck."
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"If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!"

"Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason."

"Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved."

"But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth."

"There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them."

"For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter."

"For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint."
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