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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.

Denis Diderot

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
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope

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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