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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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