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"Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish."
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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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"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
Fashion
"Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God."
God
"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
Danger
"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world."
Friendship
"Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish."
People
"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."
Friendship
"The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends."
Friendship
"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you."
People
"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
Body
"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists."
Money
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