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"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives"
Paul Gerhardt, Writer
"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys"
Emma Bull, Writer
"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything"
Claude McKay, Writer
"Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn"
Neil Innes, Writer
"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy"
Walter Anderson, Writer
"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself"
Voltaire, Writer
"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work"
Voltaire, Writer
"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it"
Voltaire, Writer
"He must be very ignorant, for he answers every question he is asked"
Voltaire, Writer
"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh"
Voltaire, Writer
"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all"
Voltaire, Writer
"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third"
Voltaire, Writer
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be"
Voltaire, Writer
"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe"
Voltaire, Writer
"Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest"
Voltaire, Writer
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do"
Voltaire, Writer
"If your treat an individual..., as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"I call architecture frozen music"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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