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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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