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"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
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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."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"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."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."

"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."

"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."

"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
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