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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."

"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."

"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."

"Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety."

"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."
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