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"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
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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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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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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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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
Mankind
"The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice."
Power
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
Friendship
"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
Virtue
"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."
Equality
"The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means."
Power
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
Man
"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
Man
"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
Poor
"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
People
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