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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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Personal Development
"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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Personal Development
"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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Personal Development
"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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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Mistake
"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
Philosophy
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
Man
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
People
"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love
"The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech."
Heart
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
Ambition
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
People
"We pardon to the extent that we love."
Love
"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
Man
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