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"It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld."
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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."
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"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."
"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."
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"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
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