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"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity."
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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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"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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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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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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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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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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"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception."
People
"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."
Society
"One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one."
Experience
"The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different."
Life
"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."
History
"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
Conversation
"Politics makes strange bedfellows."
Politics
"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire."
People
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
Land
"There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you."
Values
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