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"Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"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."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Man
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
Love
"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
Home
"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
Thought
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Education
"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
Time
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
Science
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People
"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
Society
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