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

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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