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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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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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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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