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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"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."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."

"If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank."

"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."

"There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things."

"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."
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