A witty saying proves nothing.
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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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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live
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'You are right,' said Pangloss, 'for when man was placed in the Garden of Eden, he was placed there ut operaretur eum, to dress it and keep it which proves that man was not born for idleness.'
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