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"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
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"Just hear me out. While you were napping, I was busy chatting up our allies. Didn't you know--your woman's a golden-tongued ambassador! My sisters always said I graduated from the shock-and-awe school of diplomacy, but joke 'em if they can't take a fuck, right?"
"If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains."
"Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force."
"It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do."
"Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?"
"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."
"If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society."
"People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter."
"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."
"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
"Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them."
"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
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