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/ page 359 of 1205 /An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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