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Quote by Denis Diderot
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world youve got to keep your feet warm. – Denis Diderot

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. – Denis Diderot

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Government
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. – Denis Diderot

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Theater
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. – Jim Morrison

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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. – Alexei Sayle

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. – James Russell Lowell

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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. – Alexander Smith

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So did this horse excel a common one
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