"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

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"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

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"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."

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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

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"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."

Choice

"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."

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"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."

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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

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"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

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"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

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"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."

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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."

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