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"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
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"I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in."
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."
"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
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"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests."
"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."
"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."
"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."
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