"I'm good at reading people."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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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."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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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?"

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"When you make a bet, you're saying something."

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