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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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

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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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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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