Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

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Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

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