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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. ↗

— Robert Casey

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Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored. ↗

— Robert Casey

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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ↗

— Bennett Cerf

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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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