Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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