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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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That's true enough, said Candide, but we must go and work in the garden.

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All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.

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All styles are good except the tedious kind.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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Life Quote

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

Love Quote

I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.

- Anonymous

People Quote

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

- Maya Angelou

Success Quote

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

Love Quote

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Woody Allen

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