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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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