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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
OUIDA, Two Little Wooden Shoes
Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
OUIDA, Friendship: A Story of Society
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.'
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