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"The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them."
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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 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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"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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"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 people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."
Man
"Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states."
Politics
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
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"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
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"To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach."
Man
"What we wish, that we readily believe."
Reading
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion."
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"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."
Politics
"Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law."
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"As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish."
Man
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