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"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."
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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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"Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised."
Money
"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."
People
"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good."
Character
"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership."
Love
"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."
Success
"I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck."
Advice
"People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude."
People
"You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat."
Needs
"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass."
Life
"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset."
Marriage
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