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If there were only one religi...

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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The harmony of a concert, to ...

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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God created women only to tam...

God created women only to tame men.

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There's scarce a point whereo...

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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We are going to a new world.....

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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I know of nothing more laugha...

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Not all citizens can be equal...

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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It has taken seas of blood to...

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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Los Padres have everything an...

Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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Since the whole affair had be...

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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I confess that my stomach doe...

I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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In all the disputes which hav...

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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It is fancy rather than taste...

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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This is no time to make new e...

This is no time to make new enemies.

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History is but the record of ...

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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You despise books; you whose ...

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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I am the best-natured creatur...

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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The superfluous is very neces...

The superfluous is very necessary.

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The supposed right of intoler...

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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It is impossible to translate...

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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