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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6b538017-548e-4c15-90a3-44d659622a47/E15D497E-DC51-4D2A-A924-72AC45715A30/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Voltaire&oldid=323412" href="http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Voltaire&oldid=323412" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikiquote.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Voltaire&oldid=323412"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Original: Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Source: "Sixième discours: sur la nature de l'homme," <I>Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme</I> (1738)</LI> </UL> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Voltaire&oldid=323412"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">To hold a pen is to be at war. <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Original: Qui plume a, guerre a.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Source: letter to Jeanne-Grâce Bosc du Bouchet, comtesse d'Argental (October 4, 1748)</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">This remark also appears in a letter to Marie-Louise Denis (May 22, 1752): To hold a pen is to be at war. This world is one vast temple consecrated to discord [Qui plume a, guerre a. Ce monde est un vaste temple dédié à la discorde].</LI> </UL> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Voltaire&oldid=323412"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Original: Le travail éloigne de nous trois grands maux: l'ennui, le vice et le besoin.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Source: <I>Candide</I> (1759), ch. XXX</LI> </UL> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Voltaire&oldid=323412"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Dante" href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dante">Dante</A> will always be admired, because no one ever read him.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Voltaire&oldid=323412"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="God" href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/God">God</A> created <A title="Sex" href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sex">sex</A>. 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