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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Dialogue, XIV, "Le Chapon et la Poularde" (1766)
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