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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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"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"
Woman
"I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters."
Man
"Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work."
Work
"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
God
"Independence is happiness."
Happiness
"This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses."
Roses
"I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation."
People
"Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother."
Progress
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform."
People
"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."
Trust
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