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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

Denis Diderot

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
DENIS DIDEROT

Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

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