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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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"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."

"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."

"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."

"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."

"Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."
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