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"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."
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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 difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
Difference
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
Silence
"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
Ego
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Heart
"Thought is the parent of the deed."
Thought
"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
Work
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Business
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Being
"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."
Vision
"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."
Man
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