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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."

"Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard."

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."

"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory."
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