"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people."

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"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies."

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"For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career."

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"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

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"In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away."

"For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career."

"History shows how feeble are barriers of paper."

"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."

"The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron."

"When did one man ever civilize a people?"

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"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome."

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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."

"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."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

"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."