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What a fuss about an omelette!
When he heard of the burning of De l'esprit
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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He who is merely just is severe.
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
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Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
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All styles are good except the boring kind.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Quite a heavy weight, a name too quickly famous.
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They squeeze the orange and throw away the skin.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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People sometimes say: "Common sense is quite rare."
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Man ought to be content, it is said; but with what?
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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
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True science necessarily carries tolerance with it.
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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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Our country is that spot to which our heart is attached.
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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
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Virtue: a word easy to pronounce, difficult to understand.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
November 21, 1694
Died:
May 30, 1778
(aged 83)
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