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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."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
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