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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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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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

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

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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