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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."
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"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
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"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."
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"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
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"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
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"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."
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"War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men."
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"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
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"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
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"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."
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