"The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"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 bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."

"Man dies of cold, not of darkness."