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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

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Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment
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I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.
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When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
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