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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."
"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."
"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
Explore more quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
"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."
"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."
"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
"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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