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Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novel

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Death
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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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Nature
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An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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History

History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

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History

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, theres nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. – Ani DiFranco

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History

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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History

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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery. – Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. – E. O. Wilson

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If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. – Robert Kennedy

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. – Alan Bleasdale

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