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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight."

"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves."

"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."

"The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness."

"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
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