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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
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"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."

"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."

"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."

"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."

"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
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