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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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