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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

Life is a journey, not a destination.

- Anonymous

Life Quote

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

- Jimi Hendrix

Funny Quote

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

- Yogi Berra

Sad Quote

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

Wise Quote

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

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