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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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