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"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best."
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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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"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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"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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"Silence is the wit of fools."
Fool
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
Events
"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best."
People
"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."
Dream
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
Life
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
Art
"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal."
Man
"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
God
"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."
Heart
"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces."
Soul
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