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"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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Personal Development
"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."
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"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
Life
"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
Life
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
Truth
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
Wisdom
"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
Ambition
"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
Old
"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
People
"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
Man
"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
Virtue
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Comedy
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