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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Voltaire

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Age Creation Ideas Live Man Time
Men argue. Nature acts.
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Action Change Men Nature One Liner
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Book Deep Greatness Healing Men Play
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Appreciation Excellence Gratitude Sympathy Wonderful
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Black Lives Matter Comparison Dwell Each Other Peace Religion
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
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Respect Stupidity Success World
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Happiness Healing Live Lonely One Liner Solitude
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Gossip Importance Love Nonsence Occupation Talk
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privilege Thinking Yourself
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Madness Patience Success Thinking

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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