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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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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."
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