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"People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins."
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
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