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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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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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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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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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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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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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