"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

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"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."

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"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."

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"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."

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"Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

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