"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
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"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.“
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
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