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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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