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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"
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Personal Development
"A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!"
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Personal Development
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
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Personal Development
"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"
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"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!"
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"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"
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"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"
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"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"
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"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."
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"For breakfast to be called 'in bed' instead of 'on top of a bed,' the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom."
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"Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards."
Home
"Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children."
Education
"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."
Attention
"You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do."
Responsibility
"Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet."
Morality
"Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution."
Morality
"When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed."
Society
"We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility."
Ethics
"Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one."
Technology
"Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not."
Love
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