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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Conquer Learning Politics Seduce Sex
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Family Man Mother In Law Sucess Surprise
Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Evil Greatness Labour Preserve Want Wear
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Believe Brain Confidence Human Man Power
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Amusement Dance Harm Reading World
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste

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