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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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