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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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Personal Development

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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Personal Development

"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 power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed."
Power

"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty."
Friendship

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."
God

"If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire."
Success

"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves."
Compassion

"Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day."
Gratitude

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
Money

"The only peace is being out of earshot."
Peace

"Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?"
People

"Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future."
Imagination
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