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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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Common sense is not so common.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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Change everything except your loves.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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