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Canada: A few acres of snow.

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Business is the salt of life.

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As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible ways.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'

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

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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'Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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