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Common
sense is, in spite of not the result of, education. |
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Great
perils have this beauty, that they bring light to the fraternity
of strangers. |
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Liberation
is not deliverance. |
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Life's
greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. |
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There
is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come. |
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Those
who live are those who fight. |
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My
tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. |
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People
do not lack strength; they lack will. |
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Adversity
makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. |
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When
a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her
eyes. |
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He
who opens a school door, closes a prison. |
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Forty
is the old age of youth, 50 is the youth of old age. |
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A
creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only
your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command
it. |
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There
is nothing like a dream to create the future. |
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The
guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes
the darkness. |
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Prosperity
supposes capacity. Win in the lottery and you are an able man. |
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No
one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. |
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Social
prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, and the nation
great. |
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Where
the telescope ends, the microscope begins, which of the two
has a grander view ? |
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A
compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. |
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It
is on December nights, with the thermometer zero, that we most
think of the sun. |
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Civil
War? What does that mean ? Is there any foreign war ? Isn't
every war fought between men, between brothers ? War is modified
only by its aim. There's neither foreign war nor civil war;
there is only unjust and just war. |
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An
enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions,
lies, exactions, abuses, violence, iniquity, darkness, is still
standing on the world with its towers of hatred. It must be
thrown down. This monstrous pile must be made to fall. |
