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Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 30 Oct. 1747.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

Zadig

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Voltaire. Zadig ou la Destinée [Zadig; or, The Book of Fate]. Londres: Pour la Cie, 1747, ch. 6.

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Voltaire. "Zadig." Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories, translated by Donald M. Frame. Signet, 2009, ch. 6.

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Fools are here below for our minor pleasures.

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

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Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis. Le Méchant [The Villain]. 15 Apr. 1747, Comédie-Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 1.

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Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 16 Oct. 1747.

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Take the tone of the company, that you are in.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 16 Oct. 1747.

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Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

Thomas Gray

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Gray, Thomas. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. London: R. Dodsley, 1747.

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Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

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Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.