Believe Quote by Georges Bernanos

“Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.”

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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

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Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

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