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"On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be."
People
"That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that."
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"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."
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"The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years."
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"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
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"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."
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"When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back."
Age
"Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right."
People
"I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time."
Time
"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes."
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