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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."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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"It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world."

"When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his."

"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string."

"The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people."

"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."

"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else."
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