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"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
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"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."

"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."

"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."
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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."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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