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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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