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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to…
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as…
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got…
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -…
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I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let…
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All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut;…
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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire…
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There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of…
— Eric Hoffer
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Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with…
— Erich Fromm
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn…
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She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day,…
— Paulo Coelho
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