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Honore de Balzac Novelist
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"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."

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Peter King Politician
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"There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them."

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Plato Philosopher
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"I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good."

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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
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"No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right."

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Elizabeth I Queen
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"There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him."

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