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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."

"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines."

"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."

"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time."
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