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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"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."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it."

"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

"Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money."

"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
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