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"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
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