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"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."
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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control

"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People

"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family

"Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue."
Virtue

"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth

"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."
Fishing

"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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Personal Development

"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

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

"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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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development

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

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

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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Personal Development
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