"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

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"Of course God will forgive me; that's His job."

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"God will forgive me, that's his business."

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"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."

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"Oh what lies lurk in kisses!"

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"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world."

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"Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented."

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"In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress."

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"In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable."

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"The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right."

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"Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."

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"While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues."

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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."

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"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned."

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"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind."

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"Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose."

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