"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.“
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
-Azar Nafisi
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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