"I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it."

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"I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it."

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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."

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Victor Hugo, French Author

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Samuel Johnson, English Author

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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Dean Koontz, American Author

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

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