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"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."
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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."
Man
"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
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"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."
Art
"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."
Crime
"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."
Knowledge
"A man is known by the company he organizes."
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"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."
History
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Art
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
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"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."
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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
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"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."
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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
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"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."
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"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."
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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."
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"(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion."
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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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