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"The public is a bad guesser."
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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."
"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."
"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
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"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
"Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest."
"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone."
"Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures."
"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London."
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"Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion."
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