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Wells Quotes by Voltaire
- God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
- Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
- The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
- Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
- Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
- All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being…
- One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion
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