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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 more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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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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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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