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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Denis Diderot

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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