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All Quotes Collection
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
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"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
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"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."
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"Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?"
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"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other."
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
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"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men."
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"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."
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"Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger."
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"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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"Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
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"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."
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"While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction."
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"Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
God,
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