There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
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I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.
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