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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
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Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keeps peace.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
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