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  1. Before I endorse this sentence, I am curious to hear of the measures you want to employ for making a simple soldier pay 2000 Taler.
  2. I am the first servant of my state.
  3. Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl.
  4. Religions must all be tolerated and the state has to keep an eye that none of them shall derogate the other, because here everyone must fin…
  5. A hat that let the rain in.
  6. That the arrested man has committed blasphemy is a proof that he does not know God. That he has slandered me, I pardon him. But for his ins…
  7. Je voulus faire un jet d'eau dans mon jardin; Euler calcula l'effort des roues pour faire monter l'eau dans un bassin, d'ou elle devait ret…
  8. The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

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