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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
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The best is the enemy of the good.
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Better is the enemy of good.
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.