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"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."

"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."

"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."

"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."


"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."


"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."


"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."


"We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard."
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