"He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."
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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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"England has forty-two religions and only two sauces."
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"Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren."
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"One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say."
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"The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed."
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"The way to be a bore is to say everything."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror."
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"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool."
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"Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe."
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"A witty quote proves nothing."
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"God created women only to tame men."
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"Theology is to religion what poisons are to food."
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"In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."
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"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."
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"I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue."
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"Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick."
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"All is but illusion and disaster."
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"The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage."
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"Love truth, and pardon error."
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