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"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."
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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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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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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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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Life

"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Life

"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
Thought

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Age

"Order is power."
Power

"True humility is contentment."
Contentment

"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
Talent

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."
Hope

"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."
Being

"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
Science
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