Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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God will forgive me. It's his job.
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
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The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
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The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
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There are more fools in the world than there are people.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
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When words leave off, music begins.
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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