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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some…
— Louisa May Alcott
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If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the…
— Unknown Author
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There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
— Joseph Addison
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He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
— Thomas Paine
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Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
— Mark Twain
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Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope…
— Ayn Rand
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I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good…
— Therese of Lisieux
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The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .…
— John Quincy Adams
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