In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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