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/ page 1159 of 1205 /The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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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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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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We cannot wish for that we know not.
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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