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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."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."

"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."

"A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment."

"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."

"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."

"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
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