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"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."
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"In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented."
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"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."
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