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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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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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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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