To set up a theory that lacks a source of truth is an excellent example of blind assurance.

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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If you don't believe in the solidity of iron bars, how dare you have menageries?

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The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?

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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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