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/ page 771 of 1205 /If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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