"We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly."
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"I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope."
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"History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."
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"A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention."
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"The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod."
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"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity."
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"I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is."
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"Fear follows crime and is its punishment."
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"Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror."
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"The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive."
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"It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack."
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"The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men."
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"Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them."
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"If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung."
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"Fame is a heavy burden."
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"Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared."
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"Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure."
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"We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know."
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"A small number of choice books are sufficient."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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