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"A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh."
"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."
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"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
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