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

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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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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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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