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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
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"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."
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"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."
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"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."
Men
"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
Love
"Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done."
Will
"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."
Virtue
"Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient."
Disgrace
"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
Performance
"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."
Friendship
"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."
Time
"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."
Truth
"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."
Time
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