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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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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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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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