Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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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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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

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People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ""O Lord make my enemies ridiculous."" And God granted it.

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If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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