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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
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