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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Denis Diderot

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
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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Difficult God Home Raining
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

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