What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
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Love truth, but pardon error.Voltaire
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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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing.
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Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
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