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Explore more quotes by Laurence J. Peter
"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
"Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work."
Work,
"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
Man,
"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
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"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."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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