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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."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."

"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor."

"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible."

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
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