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"When did one man ever civilize a people?"
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career."
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"A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman."
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"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
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"A good lawyer is a bad Christian."
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"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience."
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"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs."
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"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Life

"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people."
People

"When did one man ever civilize a people?"
People

"The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron."
Time
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