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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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
Habit
"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
News
"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
Body
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
Soul
"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
Soul
"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."
Evil
"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
Faith
"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."
Strength
"Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent."
Talent
"I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind."
Mind
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