You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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1200 Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
748 When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
806 The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
749 Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
792 This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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