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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
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"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"Character must be kept bright as well as clean."
Character
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
Advice
"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
Age
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
Health
"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
Man
"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh."
People
"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
Business
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
Time
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