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Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates the intelligence.

— Émile de Girardin A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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There is more poverty in the human heart than misery in life.

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Servility is to devotion what hypocrisy is to virtue.

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Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity.

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Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

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No faith has triumphed without its martyrs.

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