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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

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When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work.

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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

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I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 24th, 1717

Died: March 2nd, 1797

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