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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

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Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

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