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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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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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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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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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