I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
Subject:
Freedom
Patriotism
Speech
Work: 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Subject:
Ambition
Books
Reading
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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Subject:
Community
God
Morality
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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Subject:
Conversation
Silence
Deception
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
Subject:
Death
Charity
Wealth
Work: Letter (1769)
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Subject:
Excellence
Gratitude
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The way to become boring is to say everything.
Subject:
Conversation
Boredom
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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Subject:
Happiness
Moderation
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Subject:
Equality
Work:
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A witty saying proves nothing.
Subject:
Quotations
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Subject:
Medicine
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Subject:
God
Work:
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You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Subject:
Stupidity
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Subject:
Marriage
Work:
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Work saves us from three great evils
Subject:
Work
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Love truth, and pardon error.
Subject:
Truth
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Subject:
Eulogy
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Subject:
History
Work:
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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Subject:
Prejudice
Work:
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