"It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time."
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"Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth."
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"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
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"The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . ."
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"The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world."
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"What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful."
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"Life is to short to be small."
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"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."
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"You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete."
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"The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories."
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"I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon."
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"Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will."
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"A canter is the cure for all evil."
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"Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions."
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"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
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"Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath."
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"That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life."
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"Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."
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"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."
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"Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created."
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