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"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."
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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."
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"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."
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"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
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"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."
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"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
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"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
Business
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
Time
"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
Man
"Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them."
Love
"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
Truth
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
Advice
"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
Idleness
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
Insult
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
Pleasure
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