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What lies lurk in kisses.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
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She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
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I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food,…
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In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a…
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
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Atheism is the last word of theism
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
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Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke…
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Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either…
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I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we…
— Michael E. Mann
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How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before…
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