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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has…
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Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.
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Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother:…
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Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for…
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And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send…
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On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without…
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