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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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We only half live when we only half think.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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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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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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