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"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
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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 bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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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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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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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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"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."
Paradise

"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."
Happiness

"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."
Being

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
Wisdom

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
Children

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
Work

"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."
Goal

"Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away."
Time

"If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers."
Language

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
Friendship
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