"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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"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.“
-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."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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