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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."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"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."

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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"All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name."

"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it."

"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."

"Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else."

"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on."

"The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way."
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