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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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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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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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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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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. 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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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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

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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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