"When man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle."

Purpose, Work, Life, Activity

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"When man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle."

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"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."

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

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"He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first."

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"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

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"Fear could never make a virtue."

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"Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty."

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"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."

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"Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause."

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"She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying."

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