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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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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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There can be no happiness without good health

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