Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid.
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Animals have these advantages over man They never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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