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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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"A government of laws, and not of men."
Government
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
Power
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
Living
"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."
Heart
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
Nation
"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
Fear
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
Government
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
Exercise
"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."
People
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
Happiness
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