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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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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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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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