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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."
"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
"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."
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