Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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