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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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"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."

"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."

"Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment."

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."

"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."

"I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go."
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