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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

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If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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Man - a figment of God's imagination.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

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