It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. The Winter of Our Discontent
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris! Les Misérables
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. The Innocents Abroad
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering; and ... consequently, this feeling should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men. Essays and Letters
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