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May Quotes - Page 40

You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.

Horace Kephart (1906). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilerness”

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston (2003). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, Touchstone

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.288, Barnes & Noble Publishing

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.385, Library of Alexandria

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.129, Vintage

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.2, Courier Corporation