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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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