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“Let us cultivate our garden.”
― Candide
― Candide
“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
― Candide
― Candide
“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
“In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.”
― Candide
― Candide
“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”
― Candide
― Candide
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